Rajasthan: Trader ends life in Bhilwara, kin puts blame on loan sharks | Jaipur News

According to police, Wasim Akram Cheepa (30), a resident of Bandi Mohalla of Shahpura town in Bhilwara, consumed poison on Wednesday. (Representative image)

AJMER: Relatives and villagers staged a protest in front of Shahpura police station of Bhilwara on Thursday demanding arrest of alleged money lenders that forced a businessman to commit suicide. They refused to take the body for funeral and jammed the Mandal highway. The highway protest was called off after police and administrative officials assured action against the accused.
According to police, Wasim Akram Cheepa (30), a resident of Bandi Mohalla of Shahpura town in Bhilwara, consumed poison on Wednesday. His condition turned critical and relatives took him to a local hospital and later to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital of Bhilwara where he died. On Thursday, his body was brought to Shahpura in an ambulance where relatives and resident parked the vehicle in front of Shahpura police station and staged a protest.
Relatives said the cloth merchant had taken a loan of Rs 20 lakh from local money lenders. He paid about Rs 10 lakh with interest of 10 per cent, but still money lenders were threatening him. Later, after ASP Vimal Singh, SDM Shilpa Singh and other officials reached the spot and assured action against the money lenders, the relatives took the body for funeral.